Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time, Now With Really Bushy Eyebrows

The Ratchet we know is on the left. The picture on the right is Ratchet as he appears in the Japanese version of Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time.

Sony altered Ratchet’s design in Japan by giving him ridiculously huge eyebrows. Originally, this quirk was restricted to cover art, but starting with Ratchet & Clank Future the in-game graphics were altered too.

Here’s the Japanese trailer for Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time…

and the US Trailer, with regular eyebrows.

Ratchet & Clank Future 2 is also priced to sell in Japan with a suggested retail price of 5,980 yen ($66). That doesn’t sound like a discount to us, but in comparison to other PS3 games Ratchet & Clank Future 2 is a bargain. Final Fantasy XIII retails for 9,240 yen ($103), 3D Dot Heroes is 7,140 yen ($80), and Call of Duty 2: Modern Warfare 2 costs for 7,940 yen ($88).

Seems like Sony Computer Entertainment Japan is aggressively pricing all of their Western developed PlayStation 3 games since Uncharted 2 and Infamous, which is still unreleased there, are also 5,980 yen ($66).

The shadows on his face converged into sentient beings, shadow-creatures, and moved to rest on his eyebrows. Think Ico.

thaKingRocka

but … why?

Pichi

I thought they did it in the beginning to make them more funnier or something. The box art suggest that to me, but not sure.

http://twitter.com/bparmenter Billy Parmenter

Actually, no the in-game graphics have been altered to give Ratchet fuzzy eyebrows since the first Ratchet & Clank game, not just the cover art.

David Macphail

It’s not just the western games being overpriced if they’re doing it for Final Fantasy as well. Now that i think about it – Infamous was retailing for a slightly higher price in the UK too. Typically a new PS3 game costs £40 but Infamous was retailing for £44 – not that i minded paying the extra 4 quid, the game was well worth it.

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